{"id":9418,"date":"2014-05-28T17:39:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T21:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2014-05-28T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T21:39:40","slug":"uncertain-dots-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/28\/uncertain-dots-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertain Dots 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the sixteenth episode of Uncertain Dots, we decided to bring in some guests, <a href=\"http:\/\/arundquist.wordpress.com\/\">Andy Rundquist<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/kellyoshea.wordpress.com\/\">Kelly O&#8217;Shea<\/a> for a conversation about standards-based grading. This came up because I&#8217;m playing around with this using the same <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/06\/another-new-term-another-set-of-teaching-experiments\/\">tiered scheme<\/a> I talked about back in January.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oLKeVeKMTP4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was a fun conversation, and some interesting ideas came up. I remain kind of boggled by the amount of oral exam time Andy puts in, and I find the notion of goal-less problems intriguing, but I&#8217;m not sure I could implement it here.<\/p>\n<p>Some links:<\/p>\n<p>Kelly on <a href=\"http:\/\/kellyoshea.wordpress.com\/tag\/goal-less-problems\/\">goal-less problems<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/serc.carleton.edu\/sp\/library\/direct_measurement_video\/index.html\">Direct Measurement Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, anyway, that was fun. We&#8217;ll probably do more guests at some point in the future, when appropriate. The only down side is that it requires a little more planning, getting us away from the goal-less aesthetic we&#8217;ve established with previous editions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the sixteenth episode of Uncertain Dots, we decided to bring in some guests, Andy Rundquist and Kelly O&#8217;Shea for a conversation about standards-based grading. This came up because I&#8217;m playing around with this using the same tiered scheme I talked about back in January. This was a fun conversation, and some interesting ideas came&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/05\/28\/uncertain-dots-16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncertain Dots 16<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,134,13,7,11,679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-blogs","category-course_reports","category-education","category-physics","category-science","category-uncertain-dots","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}